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Is the church supposed to be “a place for you”?

September 29th, 201112:09 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

In the late 1970s a young preacher named Rick Warren started going door to door asking people why they didn't attend church. He then took that data and used it as a basis to start his church. And the rest, as they say, is history. I'm sure you could learn a lot of value from an exercise like that. "The greeter didn't look at me when he shook my ha...
Is salvation a matter of believing the right things?

April 23rd, 201005:59 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

Ken Pulliam asks a most reasonable question in the blog, a question concerning the relationship of belief to salvation: "What do you think that a person must believe in order to be saved? I am having difficulty categorizing your position, you seem to be much different than the evangelicals I am familiar with. That is a good thing, actually, becaus...
How to be spiritual in five minutes (or less): A Lenten Reflection

March 22nd, 201002:38 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

We live in a Dr. Phil world. It is a world in which deeply scarred, dysfunctional people can receive five minutes of counsel delivered with a Texas drawl, and supposedly be well on the road to recovery: "Y'all need to learn to forgive." Yes, turning around deeply entrenched patterns of thought and behavior is just that easy. Or so the producers w...

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